Trust and human performance in automated formation flight station-keeping

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2005.

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Main Author: Jang, Jinho, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Other Authors: Mary (Missy) L. Cummings.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34139
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spelling mit-1721.1/341392019-04-11T06:25:13Z Trust and human performance in automated formation flight station-keeping Jang, Jinho, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mary (Missy) L. Cummings. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Aeronautics and Astronautics. Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2005. Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-84). This thesis primarily describes performance and decision heuristics of human operators intervention with an autonomous formation flight (AFF) system during monitoring of a station-keeping display. Due to mental and physical workloads, automation technologies have been applied to formation flight for precise station-keeping and resultant fuel reduction, shifting control authority from humans to machines. Accordingly, the human is not directly in the control loop, but just supervises whether or not the automation works as intended. One critical problem in AFF supervisory control is that the human pilot needs to intervene with AFF system when the automated systems malfunction or their functions degrade. Thus while monitoring a station-keeping display, operators should minimize incorrect decisions for safety and cost reduction. To examine design issues in such a display, a simulation was constructed that simulated two different control systems as well as the impact of different angles of bank. 20 subjects participated in the monitoring task simulation of the station-keeping display. During the experiments, subjects were asked to intervene with AFF system when the AFF system failed to keep the trailing aircraft in the vortex area. Subjects made the most incorrect decisions when the AFF system was operated with the oscillating controller and high angle of bank. (cont.) Trust of the human in the AFF system was found to be influenced by the damping ratio of the AFF controller. Most significantly, results showed that humans developed biased decision criteria to execute interventions because velocity feedback of the wing tip on this display was not adequately provided. by Jinho Jang. S.M. 2006-09-28T15:10:36Z 2006-09-28T15:10:36Z 2005 2005 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34139 67837049 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 84 p. 3639380 bytes 3642863 bytes application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Jang, Jinho, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Trust and human performance in automated formation flight station-keeping
title Trust and human performance in automated formation flight station-keeping
title_full Trust and human performance in automated formation flight station-keeping
title_fullStr Trust and human performance in automated formation flight station-keeping
title_full_unstemmed Trust and human performance in automated formation flight station-keeping
title_short Trust and human performance in automated formation flight station-keeping
title_sort trust and human performance in automated formation flight station keeping
topic Aeronautics and Astronautics.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34139
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